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050 00 LA2317.J35|bA3 2022 
082 00 370.92|aB|223 
100 1  James, Kendra,|eauthor. 
245 10 Admissions :|ba memoir of surviving boarding school /
       |cKendra James. 
250    First Edition. 
264  1 New York :|bGrand Central Publishing,|c2022. 
264  4 |c© 2022. 
300    xiii, 283 pages :|bmap ;|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "Kendra James began her professional life selling a lie. 
       As an admissions officer specializing in diversity 
       recruitment for select prep schools, her job was 
       persuading students and families to embark on the same 
       perilous journey, attending cutthroat and largely white 
       schools similar to The Taft School, an elite institution 
       in Connecticut where she had been the first African-
       American legacy student only a few years earlier. Forced 
       to reflect on her own elite educational experience, she 
       quickly became disillusioned by America's inequitable 
       system. In ADMISSIONS, Kendra looks back at the three 
       years she spent at Taft, from clashes with her lily-white 
       roommate, to unlearning the respectability politics she'd 
       been raised with, and a horrifying article in the student 
       newspaper that accused Black and Latinx students of being 
       responsible for segregation of campus. She contemplates 
       the benefits of the education she got from Taft, which 
       Kendra credits as playing a role in her career success, as
       well as the ways the school coddled her--perhaps, she now 
       believes, too much. Through these stories, she 
       deconstructs the lies and half-truths she herself would 
       later tell as an admissions professional, in addition to 
       the myths about boarding schools perpetuated by popular 
       culture. With its combination of incisive social critique 
       and uproarious depictions of elite nonsense, ADMISSIONS 
       will resonate with anyone who has ever been The Only One 
       in a room, dealt with racial microaggressions, or even 
       just suffered from an extreme case of homesickness"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 School administrators|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Women school administrators|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 African American school administrators. 
650  0 Private schools|xAdministration. 
650  0 Minority students|xRecruiting. 
650  0 Racism in education|zUnited States. 
650  0 Elite (Social sciences)|xEducation|zUnited States. 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / 
       African American & Black.|2bisacsh  
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.|2bisacsh  
650  7 HUMOR / Topic / School & Education.|2bisacsh  
650  7 African American school administrators.|2fast
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650  7 Minority students|xRecruiting.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01023398 
650  7 Private schools|xAdministration.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01077567
650  7 Racism in education.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01737534 
650  7 School administrators.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01106935 
650  7 Women school administrators.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01178494 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
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